NMLP P-041267 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

Opticks

Isaac Newton · Printed for Sam. Smith and Benj. Walford, Printers to the Royal Society, London · 1704

The first-issue point is that Newton's name does not appear on the title page — the book was published anonymously, and the Advertisement is subscribed only with the initials I.N.; cataloguers also record a later 1704 issue in which the author's name is present on the title, so an Opticks title page naming Newton is not the first issue

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-041267 for "Opticks" by Isaac Newton (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-041267, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).